People often complain and wonder why we close a thread. This is a perfect example of why. I go to sleep, wake up the next morning to this, where half of the new posts are people attacking each other and telling one another what they should do if they don't like things. We close threads when people start attacking each other, go off-topic, or feel like it's a good time to get up on their soap box to let everyone know what *their* opinion is on this and a dozen related issues.

Thank you. Thank you all for sharing your opinions, and thank you for those of you who actually stayed on-topic with the discussion. Thank you for those who understand our decision and how difficult it was, and thank you for those who didn't, who disagree, and took the time to let us know. I appreciate that, I really do.

Self-disclosure is difficult to do well sometimes, especially when one's "secret" is so very big. We only know a stranger by what they label themselves, and lostson came here and self-disclosed himself with a very big and very negative label in his very first post. Unfortunately, that's almost *always* to get a reaction from others, and that reaction may be something like this. It's sad, but often true, that we can't just walk into a room and say, "Hey, my name is Jim and I've had schizophrenia for the past 10 years" and expect others to instantly understand and accept us for who we are.

That's probably because if you use a label, and people don't know *you*, then they're only going to know you by the label you've used. Jim has schizophrenia, but I know nothing else about Jim, so I put everything I think I know (some of which may be true, some of which may not be) about schizophrenia onto Jim.

Is it fair? Maybe, maybe not. But it's human, it's what most of us do, and what's done here is what's done.

And as much as I hate to do it, I have to close this thread. I don't want to, but some have made it clear they're more interested in hurting others with their comments than in discussing this issue.

DocJohn